Another Q6600 query...

So, the basic story for me is- I've been running my box (stock non-overclocked Q6600/Stock Intel fan & sink) for some time now pretty much hassle free, playing games and running a lot of graphics applications. However, I recently got stuck into some heavy video work and have had the computer resetting itself after all four of my cores have been taxed at full load for a little while. I haven't seen any other evidence the issue is power supply related, so I thought I'd look into my core temps.

RealTemp's readouts are a bit confusing to me. Idle (5% or so) the average is between 45C-55C. Under load, things shoot up to more than 90C pretty quickly. I also have a red LOG writtem for my first core... but I'm not completely clear on what that means.

ya once removed you need to reapply. if you dont youll get air bubbles uneven spread hair sand all sorts of junk thats not supposed to be their. id get a small tower cooler or something. if you dont OC and its a work PC i wouldnt get a xigmatek super omfg. Honestly you have to take what we say here with a grain of salt. The fact is you dont need it. something like this would be fine.

I have pm'd the scary (very clam-like) man. At the moment the Noctua NH-U12P is looking nice. I don't know how loud it is, but it looks like a really solid cooler, and cool is possibly worth the extra cash.